Re: Frustrations of captions video delivery

... I share many of your concerns by the way, but this has been
discussed before and I think we need to come up with clear gaps and a
game plan otherwise progress will be frustrated.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 6:22 PM Pierre-Anthony Lemieux <pal@sandflow.com> wrote:
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> > Also - it doesn't work for TVs where you cannot use a polyfill.
>
> What do you mean by that? Is the TV using a web browser?
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 6:12 PM Silvia Pfeiffer
> <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That's what is being done ... by every single content publisher.
> > That's an effort that a conformant browser implementation should be able to avoid.
> > Also - it doesn't work for TVs where you cannot use a polyfill.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 1:05 PM Pierre-Anthony Lemieux <pal@sandflow.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> What cannot be done by using a JS polyfill?
> >>
> >> -- Pierre
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 5:57 PM Silvia Pfeiffer
> >> <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I thought it would be useful to share a video of a Paramount employee explaining their challenges with rendering and styling of videos via browser technology:
> >> > https://youtu.be/Z0HqYQqdErE
> >> >
> >> > It's really quite frustrating to see that Web browsers are still not conformant with each other in how to render Cues on the Web and therefore content providers are still needing to build their own rendering technologies to not be hit with lawsuits.
> >> >
> >> > I've stopped being active around caption standards and compatibility on the Web about 10 years ago and I'm so sad that we haven't made much progress since then.
> >> >
> >> > When will browser vendors make this a priority?
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Silvia.

Received on Saturday, 7 January 2023 02:28:55 UTC